Three Stories
1997 · 109 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 858 VOTES · DIR. Kira Muratova
Overview
A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor’s five-year-old daughter “all the abomination of her lumpen existence”. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.
Dialogue Timeline — 739 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:01 The Igor Tolstunov Producer Firm
00:04:07 In the stokehold's bowels I'm a monk, a hermit
00:07:21 - Why take all the trouble? - He owes me.
00:09:38 I lack words to describe the likes of her. It's a nightmare!
00:12:04 Your hand is shaking. Don't listen to him.
00:14:32 That's not your aesthetics. You've stuck to him like a leech.
00:17:12 Go away, I need to mull it over.
00:19:50 My children, two girls - But I'm not a log, am I?
00:23:02 Oh God!
00:28:08 - Yes, I came to see you. - And?
00:31:55 - What is your favourite colour? - I like white, I like black...
00:39:47 So kind, so kind, so very kind.
00:52:06 I'm terrified. I'm shaken.
00:57:37 I like handling documents.
01:03:16 25 Flower street, apartment 5. Single. No telephone.
01:11:43 Let's check it.
01:22:22 Dizziness, stress...
01:26:31 You are not, baby. I promised your mother...
01:31:05 Don't eat it, it was stolen and your mama is a thief.
01:34:10 - Want to play with the fan? - No.
01:37:23 ...and your mama will be sacked.
01:44:02 Say this when you get lost, okay?
01:48:25 Old age, my dear fellow, is repulsive.
01:53:22 Translator - Raisa SVIRINA
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed739
Dialogue density6.8 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line01:53:22
Production Record
DirectorKira Muratova
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes858